Lecture: Michela Biseo

Knowing and being known: Thoughts on Parent infant psychotherapy technique in the face of severe maternal psychopathology.

The presentation will be a clinical case discussion, illustrated by film clips from parent-infant psychotherapy with a mother and baby, 4 months at the start of treatment. The focus will be on the therapist's attempt to work to support the baby's experience and development of a sense of self, whilst living with a chronically mentally ill mother. Particular attention will be paid to working directly with the baby through play. Themes are of hostility, intrusion and dissociation in the parent-infant relationship. Michela will attempt to show how she worked with this, with an emphasis on her counter-transference.

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Michela trained at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families as a Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist (ACP) and is also a Consultant Parent-Infant Psychotherapist. She is Lead Clinician for Under 5s Services at the AFC, and developed and holds a commissioned post to provide parent infant psychotherapy to Camden residents. She is the principal supervisor, and Head of the Training Committee for the AFNCCF Specialist training for Psychoanalytic Parent Infant Psychotherapy (BPC). Michela has worked in generic CAMHS teams in the NHS and also in a specialist Looked-After Children's team. She teaches, supervises and works in private practice.

Publications

Biseo, M. (2016) “Engaging and beginning the work” and “Knowing and being known: PIP in the face of severe maternal psychopathology” in: 2nd Edition The Practice of Psychoanalytic Parent Infant Psychotherapy: Claiming the Baby, T. Baradon with Biseo M., Broughton C. James J, Joyce A. Routledge.

Biseo, M. (2012), Parent Infant Psychotherapy: a new “real” relationship. Chapter 10 In Malberg N &Raphael-Leff, J Eds. The Anna Freud Tradition: Lines of Development, Karnac.

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